Nigerian-born mobile game production company Gamsole has emerged one of the winners of the AppsAfrica 2015 Innovation Award. Gamsole was adjudged the best entertainment product on the continent.
A total of ten winners of the AppsAfrica.com Innovation Awards 2015 supported by Uber, Mobile Monday South Africa, Appsworld and Picup were announced and honoured at a Cape Town celebration of African mobile and tech ecosystem innovation. According to the organisers, entries were received from very diverse sectors such as entertainment, agriculture, transport and market research. Health, education and fintech were very popular categories also, all illustrating the explosive growth of Africa’s mobile first markets and tech ecosystem.
The 2015 entries came from over 21 countries and the winners on the night came from South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Cameroon, Tanzania and Togo. Find below the complete list of winners and their respective categories.
- Disruptive Innovation – Opera’s Sponsored Web Pass (Nigeria)
- Mobile Innovation – bookly (South Africa)
- Non Data Mobile Innovation – GeoPoll (Kenya/USA)
- African App – Tuluntulu (South Africa)
- Fintech – VCpay (South Africa)
- Health – GiftedMom (Cameroon)
- Educational – mPaper (Tanzania)
- Social Impact Award – codeX (South Africa)
- Entertainment – Gamsole (Nigeria)
- Women In Tech – Emefa Kpegba – OMobileFunding (Togo)
